Specific grade level content

Kindergarten

The reading program provides cross-curricular opportunities for science at this level. Some topics to be discovered are as follows:

• All about me and my five senses
• Feeling good, being healthy (our bodies and our brain), eating right
• Animals (farm and zoo)
• Machines, things on wheels
• Water ( the beach, sea creatures, the pond)
• Seasons and weather, growing things, earth day
• Butterflies, bees, beetles, worms, snakes, and snails

Grade 1

• Living and Nonliving Things
• Keeping Fit and Healthy
• Earth, Land, and Water
• Weather and Seasons

Grade 2

• Earth Through Time
• The Human Body
• Solids, Liquids, and Gases
• Interactions of Living Things

Grade 3

LIFE SCIENCE

• Ecosystems
• Life of Plants
• Plant Variety

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

• Matter
• Motion & Force
• Electricity
• Magnets

HUMAN BODY

• The Musculoskeletal System
• The Nervous System
• Health

EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE

• Tocks & Soils
• Earth’s Surface
• Changes in the Earth’s Surface
• The Solar System
• Stars & Constellations

Grade 4

LIFE SCIENCE: STABILITY

• Design of Life
• Order of Life
• Diversity of Life
• System of Life

PHYSICAL SCIENCE: ENERGY

• Energy & Heat
• Light & Sound
• Motion & Force
• Matter & Its Uses

EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE: BALANCE

• The Lithosphere
• The Hydrosphere
• The Atmosphere
• The Universe

HUMAN BODY: WELLNESS

• Body Systems I
• Body Systems II

Grade 5

LIFE SCIENCE

• Natural Cycles
• Life Cycles
• Cells
• Ecological Succession
• Measuring Matter

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

• Changing Matter
• Force and Work
• Electricity and Magnetism

EARTH & SPACE SCIENCE

• Earth’s Processes
• Natural Resources
• Weather & Climate
• Sun, Earth, and Moon
• Transitions

HUMAN BODY

• Disease